Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only occasion on which it [TIME] doesn't call a spade a spade is when it lets readers see from photographs and calling would be superfluous-as it reveals those spade-faced, hedge-headed, hookwormed whites of South Carolina to whom the likes o' Jimmy Byrnes has to appeal in order to get reelected...
...must call you on one point in your story and that is the reference, "this (South Carolina) once aristocratic State." Why once? Although the State is full of riff-raff from the North Carolina mountains, poor white trash from Georgia's Tobacco Roads, and its own degenerate offspring of former plantation overseers and Yankee carpet baggers, there is still plenty of Palmetto aristocracy not only in the low country but in the sand hills and up country as well. True, much of the State's aristocracy is run down, but not all by a long shot...
...issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King's stamp decision wrong...
...that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact I have no nickname, possibly "Cy" or Johnny or Jack. You have my permission to discontinue the use of Dodo-it's really like shooting from behind to call me that and puncture my wounded vanity...
From Buffalo, Governor Landon turned homeward, made 15 rear-platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri. In Springfield he paid a duty call at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. In St. Louis he obeyed another political tradition by publicly kissing a baby, 17-month old Joyce Rushing, daughter of a Carterville, Ill. barber, and exclaiming, "My, what a fine, fat baby...